St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09
A FOOLS WISDOM.

WllIinS raplQiy ana an error occurs In the
putting down of his thoughts or opinions, he
does not blot the same or cross 1t out, but
with twist Of his thumb he rubs it quickly
creating in place of the mistake comet
with we'll developed head and tail like
the streamefs on band wagon.
The dog show lately held In st. Paul and
the increased popularity of pugs since then
nave brought to the city a new occupation,
which as l read the poster is called the
Dogs hair restorer." Dogs, like men, fire.
quenuy have dissipated tastes which cause
sad loss of hair. Sometimes the rayages are
confined solely to loss of the color of the
hair. A st. Bernard of fue black color
after couple of years of late hours ond IT.
regular meals will find his hair turning
brown. 1t is to remedy these evils that the
dogs hair restorer has made its appearance.
/ am told that he has two scales Of prices
one very high for treating the dog alone,
and one very reasonable for treating both
the dog and its mistress. You pay your
money, etc.
Capt. SANDERS Of state fame, has many
stories to tell OF his Florida experiences. One
OF the best is this: Sat st. Augustine saw
something that don't believe was ever done
ran out into the street, and in front of a
young negro boy. The boy picked up an
orange and threw it at the animal with such
force that he killed it." At this point the
captain stops and looks at his victim to see
how he is standing 1t. Then he goes
On: 1.-The Florida country is so sandy that
the grass will not grow and the COWS have
nothing to feed ON. These COWS are very
small-say about the size of one of our
Shetland ponies. On the bottoms of the
rivers there grows rich moss. The COWS,
having no grass, seek this, and in doing so
become aquatic in their tastes. They swim
and dive with great ease, and in their water
lives have but one enemy. That is an eel
about three feet long that attaches itself to
their bags and extracts all the milk Capt
SANDERS relies on o. B. TURRELL, of Red
wood Falls, to verify all of his statements.
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As characteristic of the man I heard told
last week the following story of JOHN W.
ALEXANDER. 1t will be remembered that he
was attorney for E. ST. JULIEN Cox in the
famous impeachment suit. In preparing the
defense of his Giant Mr.. ARCTANDER remem-
bered that somewhere and sometime in his
life he had read that the English courts had
held that drunkenness was not cause for i'm
information he could not tell But he at
once purchased all the English law books that
he coutd and which might reveal ANYTHING
on the subject, and sat down to read them,
He commenced at the beginning and read
night and day until after long search he
found the point and had precedent on
which to work for success. Despite this pro-
found research Mr.. ARcTANDER lost his
cause, but a man who will investigate the
law like that is not as a rule unsuccessful.
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Among the Scandinavians the art of appli-
cation as instanced in the above case, is by
no means lost one. Last winter the famiI-
iarity of Lieut.. Gov. RICE with parliamentary
rules occasioned great surprise among those
who knew him least. That he, foreigner.
should be better posted in parliamentary
practice than even the American members on
the floor did not cease to be wonder during
the session. I was told afterward that Mr..
RICE had gained this knowledge by midnight
study while he was young man. He was
poor, but ambitious, and when through with
his daily toll would spend his nights over
books which would aid him to become, not
only successful business man, but an edu-
Gated public citizen. This may be romance;
even if it is, there are only one or two Scandi-
IL.
RICE in their attainments.
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The conundrum most frequently asked in
the Second district is, How was JOHN LIND
elected as congressman Mr.. LIND is a
Swede; he lives in county populated al
most wholly by Germans; the district that
elected him is not u Scandinavian one The
English-speaking vote of the district has a
large majority over theScandinaVian. Mr.
LIND is high protective tariff advocate,
while the district would give majority for
free trade any day. What elected him? Ex-
Senator WILKINSON was in st. Paul last fall a
short time after LIND's nomination. He con-
suited several prominent Democrats as to
how LIND could be beaten. One of them told
him that this could only be done by filling
the district with speakers who would advo-
cate free trade as against LIMBS protection.
I do not think that even this would have
beaten Mr.. LIND, but it would have scared
him. That he did not get such scare he
may owe to the fact that the Democratic
leaders concentrated their energies upon the
First, Third and Fourth districts
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Mr.. LIND will never have 10000 majority
again in the Second district The German
vote in the Minnesota valley is leaving the
possible that the panygerics of Bishop IRE
LAND will bring in sufficient Irish proselytes
to compensate for the loss. There are about
ITO breweries in the state. One hundred of
them are owned by Germans. From personal
knowledge l can say that the average num-
Der of employees about these breweries is
twenty. That is, there are 1000 converts to
low license for malt liquors and opponents
to the police regulations of the party whom
men like Mr.. LIND represent. But these
hundred breweries control also from three to
over 300 saloons each. Or, in round num-
bers, there are 1000 saloons in the state
that owe their existence to the breweries.
They, too, naturally oppose the present high
license law. AS matter of fact high license
is playing the greatest havoc in the German
beer-driuking communities. 1t is diminish
ing the output of the country breweries, and
in one or two cases has forced brewer to
the wall. While it has closed up many saloons
in the German country settlements, it does
not appear to have diminished drinking. 1t
has driven trade from the local breweries to
those of the Twin Cities. As German citi-
zen of Scott county said to me the other day:
when / want my beer now 1 come to st.
Paul. buy my beer here and ship it home.
Last year I bought it at home, but high
license has forced our brewery to close" 1t
is true that while high license has been in
operation in Minneapolis for three months
and diminished the number of her saloons
the output of her great breweries has in
creased. ascribe this to the fact that the
country breweries are being driven out of
business and the trade is forced to the pat
ronage of Twin City establishments. This
result is consistent with the operations of
high license in the past in other localities.
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VAN LEUvEN, of the Spring Valley Vidette,
has brought out Congressman Tom WILSON
for the United States senate in 1889. He
does this with the glowing endorsement of